Lo­gist­ics Ser­vices Pro­viders

Logistics service providers, with their innovative capabilities and practical focus on service, influence the development of logistics like no other industry. Their services facilitate intelligent delivery concepts and global supply chains. Because of this wide range of influence, logistics service providers can face industry-specific challenges to provide logistics efficiently depending on each individual client.

Trends & Challenges

Business development is becoming a more important topic – no matter whether associated with services, industries, regions, product designs, or M&A.

Greater operations complexity and increasing requirements for tender document submissions are major challenges in project acquisition.

Technological advancements in logistics and high staff turnover in metropolitan areas require professional launch management.

Miebach & Logistics Service Providers

The types of companies in this industry are vast: 3PLs, 4PLs, freight forwarders, CEP, post, and others. Miebach Consulting supports business development, helping complete a strategic reorientation or continuing to develop the company.

We manage your tender from tender documents to award procedure on behalf of the bidding party. After that, we support you with our core services around go-live management all the way to stable operations.

Starting from selection of a business segment, to M&A or service development up to successful operation – we provide support in all phases and profitably establish growth targets, no matter if revenue or cost driven.

Logistics service providers, with their innovative capabilities and practical focus on service, influence the development of logistics like no other industry. Their services facilitate intelligent delivery concepts and global supply chains. Because of this wide range of influence, logistics service providers can face industry-specific challenges to provide logistics efficiently depending on each individual client.

Trends & Challenges

Business development is becoming a more important topic – no matter whether associated with services, industries, regions, product designs, or M&A.

Greater operations complexity and increasing requirements for tender document submissions are major challenges in project acquisition.

Technological advancements in logistics and high staff turnover in metropolitan areas...

selected clients

Further Information

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The strategic development of a company is a challenge for many logistics services providers, and previous methods only lead to insufficient solutions. While during the 90s and 2000s the focus was to successfully establish new businesses, it has now changed to attracting new business opportunities. This change is challenging the whole industry.

Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) are playing an increasingly important role in the logistics environment. Both strategists and financial investors endeavor to acquire logistics services providers, logistics IT companies and logistics equipment manufacturers – and normally seek external support for this purpose.

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Projects

Projects

Optimization of transport processes and costs

Logistics Services Providers

Simulation

Transport Optimization

Project Summary

A regional logistics operator has a long-term contract with a market-leading drinks manufacturer to manage its transports and warehouse operations. However, despite implementing numerous improvements they had been unable to make a profit on that contract. The company enlisted the assistance of Miebach Consulting in order to optimize the operational process and reduce the transport costs, while ensuring the original requirements and service levels guaranteed under the contract with the customer.

Benefits

Analysis reveals vast potentials for improvement

Logistics Services Providers

Supply Chain Assessment

Supply Chain Visibility

Project Summary

A logistics services provider with extensive experience in the postal market was faced with the challenge of becoming the leading mail and logistics company on a national level. In preparation for this change they contracted Miebach Consulting in order to draw up a logistics diagnosis of their current network and to identify both the potential logistics needs of their business and the opportunities to improve their actual logistics network.

Project Scope

Detailed analysis of the current network: processes, flows, and costs

Identify and outline the logistic needs of the business

Identify potential operational synergies

Benefits

Increased center productivity by 22%

Reduced operational costs by 15%

Created operational synergies by centralizing the different business units

Simulation of logistics concept for pouch sorter

Logistics Services Providers

Simulation

Warehouse Design

Project Summary

An internationally established logistics service provider was planning a new logistics center. They asked Miebach Consulting to develop optimal algorithms for future aggregation of orders to be processed based on a simulation. The focus was on the pouch sorter and on creating efficient material flows. Potential bottlenecks and weak spots of the planned measures were identified and alternatives were determined.

Project Scope

Conception of a simulation model and integration of real data

Design and implementation of optimal order compiling algorithms

Consolidation of shipping units under restrictions

Benefits

High functionality and robustness of planned logistics solution

Increased efficiency by quickly eliminating identified bottlenecks

Optimal dimensioning of dynamic buffer due to concept supported by simulation

Optimized tender management process for chemical 3PL

Logistics Services Providers

Organizational Development

Project Summary

Following the reorganization of their business concept, a 3PL specialized in the chemical industry asked Miebach Consulting to support an internal process management team. They were responsible for handling market requests and optimization of tender management processes. Miebach developed processes and checklists in compliance with rules, tasks and responsibilities. The new concept was then integrated into the company’s organizational structure by the process management team.

Benefits

Communication concept for M&A changes

Logistics Services Providers

Change Management

Project Summary

A chemical logistics service provider sought assistance from Miebach Consulting to reorganize and restructure their business concept to adapt to market changes. Due to many organizational changes that were implemented because of a M&A it was necessary to develop a communication concept. The target was to inform the different stakeholders about the new structure individually. In trainings, operational managers were prepared to handle challenging situations accurately and confidently.

Project Scope

Developing and aligning of communication concept with the top management

Benefits

Expert report secures future IT investment

Logistics Services Providers

IT Strategy

Project Summary

Due to technical developments, an international logistics service provider had to redesign their IT strategy.
Miebach Consulting was asked to develop an expert report to provide decision support for the supervisory board and board of management to approve an IT project with 7 million € investment.
The scope of the project was the definition of the future IT strategy for the international organization and the interfaces to the customers.

Project Scope

Conduct workshops to analyze IT systems and technologies as information base